Posted on 03/24/2015 10:44:37 AM PDT by Ravnagora
WHAT IS OWED TO THE SERBS.
One of those moments you never forget: Before the dawn on March 25, 1999, I stepped outside the door to find The New York Times there on the ground with the headline announcing that NATO had begun its bombing campaign against the Serbs in the former Yugoslavia on March 24, 1999. I remember looking at that front page of the paper before picking it up and thinking - "They are really doing it. It's no longer a threat. It's real. It's real. What a mistake. What a mistake." Then I picked up the paper and went back inside. So began a 78 bombing campaign which included the time span over the Easter holiday and my family's Christian Patron Saint's Day - our Krsna Slava, St. Lazarus Saturday - which falls a week before Serbian Orthodox Easter.
I love America. Always have. Always will. But that bombing campaign in 1999, yet another horrific mistep in American foreign policy against the Christian Serbs that had spanned throughout the decade of the 1990s, beginning with the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, was a mistake of GIANT proportions. The Serbians had always been one of America's most steadfast and loyal Allies and certainly her best friend in the Balkans for sure. What hurts the most is that now so many Serbians no longer consider America a friend or an ally and have no wish to be either of those to America. That is the real tragedy. The WRONG people were targeted. The WRONG people were punished. The WRONG people in the Balkans were alienated.
The NATO bombing campaign of 1999 against the Serbs stands as one of the most unjust acts of aggression in the history of the world. I can only hope and pray that, at the very least, some day there will be a public act of contrition in the form of a public apology from America, regardless of whether there is one from her NATO allies or not, and that this apology will resound for all the world to hear.
AMERICA OWES SERBIA THAT ACT OF REPENTANCE, AND MUCH MORE.
Sincerely,
Aleksandra Rebic
March 24, 2015
*****
And the Brit troopies and junior officers [*Ruperts*] who worked for him loved their boss for showing that for some officers, loyalty down the Chain of Command is just as meaningful a duty as it is up the chain. And they happily nicknamed him *Darth Jackson* or *Darth Jackie,* in part due to his gravel-toned voice. In part.
An outstanding officer.
Wish there were more like him.
I was very happy when Wesley Clark's presidential aspirations and political career fizzled out. A Clark presidency would be a lot like Obama's, except we'd have troops "nation building" and "keeping peace" in every third world country instead of just a handful. In other words, he'd be a combination of Barack Obama and Lindsey Graham.
I had to laugh when Clark thought he could run for Pres as a “War General”.
Quite a few people remember his actions, behavior, attitudes, etc.
He’d also have had classes on proper sodomy techniques, he was one of the great drivers behind the push for the first end to the ban on homos in uniform a.k.a. “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
We’d have seen him and his purse limply motioning his driver on where to go.
Thanks for taking me up on my Paul Watson comment. Either Mr. Watson was flat-out lying (which he wasn’t) or the rest of the media REFUSED to let Americans know what was really going on there as their higher priority was to protect Clinton from war crimes. In the 1930s the New York Times had reporter Walter Duranty stationed in Russia and Ukraine. EVERY report of his talked about how great Russia was doing with its Communist experiment, versus people in the US (at the time) comparing it to our Great Depression. With those reports THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS went to the Soviet Union for a better life (Stalin was inviting them), with many taking their families. Once they showed up, their passports were taken away, then times got tougher and tougher. Finally Stalin got paranoid and executed virtually all of them. 2 Americans made it home. You don’t read about it because the people that control education prefer we not know the dark side of Communism.
That was 80 years ago. I WOULD LOVE to think that we live in a country where the media doesn’t get away with lying to us anymore, at least on the scale of war crimes or crimes against humanity...but given our bombing of Serbia, I guess we’re just not there yet.
As to WHY? Money maybe, but militarily we did not want to fight on the ground, since that meant a body count under Clinton’s watch. So we first bombed military targets. The Serbs played it perfect - they put up cardboard cutouts of military targets and we sent $1M sorties to bomb that cardboard into oblivion - we were getting nowhere. So the only choice left, short of ground troops, was civilian targets, to bring the country to its knees. That was a war crime. But it was ok because the Serbs, I guess, were the bad guys in the eyes of the countries that held the power.
Could you maybe tell me more, please? In a private mail, if you like.
Oh, I'm quite happy to spread the news in public. Unlike governments, we do not [mostly] hide our secrets away.
***As usual with the Clintons, follow the money.***
Note in particular the *accidental* bombing of the Chinese embassy. Note who was killed in that bombing, and then follow the money to the Clinton's 1997-98 Loral money-for-missiles scandal, in which the Clintons took cash in an exchange for missile guidance technology that went to China, who then passed it along to the North Koreans and Iranians.
Re the Vince Foster death: Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the US, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, resides here in McLean, VA on the banks of the Potomac River, right outside the [U.S.] Civil War battlefield site at Ft Marcy Park, where Vincent Foster's body was dumped found.
***And also take especial note of who the neighbors were in the vicinity where Vince Foster's body was dumped.
Too, recall that one of the early primary targets on the bombing was a museum....
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